Originally posted by ZahlanziAccording to taste there seem to be three main alternatives to the effective treatment of the very worst criminals:-
one cannot fully trust a rapist or a paedophile that they have rehabilitated or that they even can be. i am not sure i could allow those kinds of people to be rehabilitated. some crimes are too brutal and horrible to forgive. that is why we have the death penalty, it is for people we no longer wish to be a part of society. so if that is taken care of , i wo ...[text shortened]... ther as to say that death is too good for some. so again, lock them away and throw away the key.
(a)Elimination.
(b)Extreme 'hard labour' for life.
(c)The 'silent system', described by Dickens, as practised in Philadelphia prisons in the 19th century.
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundLol, and killing someone is not an aborent abuse of the right to life? What planet do you live on?
Wy stick Murderers in the same catagory as rapists and peadophiles ? There are many, many understandable reasons for murder, the other two are abhorant abuses of the right to life.
There should be no understandable reason for murder, the right to life must be fundamentally present to begin with. The rights that life has thereafter are secondary.